<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It's a thin year for Japanese cinema at Cannes. The only film showing, and out of competition in Un Certain Regard, is Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata.<div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>A. M. Nornes</div><div>Professor</div><div>Department of Screen Arts & Cultures</div><div>Department of Asian Languages & Cultures</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>Department of Asian Languages and Cultures</div><div>Suite 6111, 202 South Thayer Street</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 </div><div>Phone: (734) 647-2094; FAX: x0157</div><div>Homepage: <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~amnornes">www.umich.edu/~amnornes</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>